If I may give constructing feedback then, "noise evidence generator" sounds like you're creating fake noise proof to fool courts. The name needs to be revised.

"recorder" might feel less like it's inventing things.

Thank you for your suggestion, I will revise it!

"Noise Evidence Logger" perhaps? the 'generator' in the name also made me think this was for faking proof. neat app idea

was my first thought as well.

Adjustments have been made, thank you again! That's a great suggestion!

I 100% thought it was a tool for landlords to do illegal evictions lol

For grid storage the only two things that matter are cost and reliability. So it would be a big deal, but it's not the public for whom it would be the biggest deal.

I think light aircraft doing short flights might be pretty interested by the technology. I remember 400 Wh being a threshold above which flights become feasible.

Politically it would be an interesting choice for Netflix to encourage people to use their BitTorrent clients..

But technically, you're right.

I didn't even know Netflix had a bit torrent client!

Really? Flash had been such an absolute pain for me for years, I was so happy when my bank stopped using it so I could uninstall the heck out of it.

Since when is betting supposed to be fair? The whole point is the middle man extracts money.

But then you need to rent a server without leaving any hint on your real identity. Which means going to some dodgy corners of the internet.

I certainly wouldn't attempt

Depends on your threat model, you'd probably have to be scraping at a pretty large scale for anyone to try pursuing you through vpn providers.

This is unquestionably a large scale.

The majority of drivers believe they’re better than average [1]

1: https://www.lbec-law.com/blog/2025/04/the-majority-of-driver...

wow, I never expected to see them come back

That's not at all how I read it.

They mentioned they delivered a software decoder on android first, then they also targeted web browsers (presumably through wasm). So out of these 30%, a good chunk of it is software not hardware.

That being said, it's a pretty compelling argument for phone and tv manufacturers to get their act together, as Apple has already done.

This is something that infuriates me to no end - companies forcing software decoding on my devices rather than shipping me a codec my device supports.

When I'm watching something on YouTube on my iPhone, they're usually shipping me something like VP9 video which requires a software decoder; on a sick day stuck in bed I can burn through ten percent of my battery in thirty minutes.

Meanwhile, if I'm streaming from Plex, all of my media is h264 or h265 and I can watch for hours on the same battery life.

Another example of why Android is better for this use case. With Firefox for Android you can install an extension to force h264 from YouTube and the problem is solved. With iPhone, you cannot. You must buy a new device when you need a feature or support.